| Date | 3 May 2026 |
| Tracker | European Airspace Violations |
| Type | Incursion |
| Location |
Șerbăuți, Suceava County, Romania
47.83, 26.14 (approximate) |
An unmarked drone carrying no explosives fell about 20 kilometres inside Romanian territory near the village of Șerbăuți in Suceava County. It was only the third violation of Romanian airspace across the northern section of the Ukrainian border since the war began — almost every other Romanian entry in this log sits on the Danube Delta in the south-east.
| Date | Type | Incident |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Apr 2026 | Strike | Russian drone damages house and power pole in Galați |
| 3 May 2026 | Incursion | Two drones enter Finnish airspace, airspace closed for three hours |
| 7 May 2026 | Strike | Ukrainian drone strikes oil storage facility at Rēzekne |
| 8 May 2026 | Incursion | Russian reconnaissance drone falls in Poland after crossing from Kaliningrad |
GlobalMilitary.net's 2026 inventory snapshot shows nine NATO members — Iceland, Luxembourg, the three Baltic states, Montenegro, Albania, North Macedonia and Slovenia — hold no fixed-wing fighters, attack aircraft or bombers and depend on Allied air policing.
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